In its capacity as national centre for cinematographic art, the Film Museum located in the Vondelpark aims to foster the art of film in The Netherlands. It does so by the collection restoring and screening masterpieces from the history of film. The Film Museum also regularly programmes new work by Dutch as well as foreign directors and the history of film in all its aspects is presented in two excellent auditoriums of which one features the Art Deco interior of the Cinema Parisien, a former Amsterdam cinema.